A court has found the evidence gathered by the North Caucasus Federal District Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee sufficient to convict Islam Batsiyev. He was found guilty of crimes under article 279 of the RF Penal Code (armed mutiny).
The court and investigators have established that in 1996-1999 Shamil Basayev, a citizen of Jordan Khattab, Bagaudin Magomedov and other extreme Wahhabi set up illegal armed groups in the Chechen Republic, in which they involved other individuals to establish from of government contradicting the RF Constitution. On 7 August 1999, about 05:00 AM, the illegal armed groups of about a thousand people led by Shamil Basayev and Khattab surged from the territory of Chechnya through the administrative border of Dagestan into Botlikh district to seize the power and make a single Muslim state of Chechnya and Dagestan. The same year on 8 August federal forces started massive operations to terminate the insurgents. During the action 90 servicemen, law enforcement officers and civilians were killed, 290 people were wounded. Thousands of local people had to flee their homes.
Eyewitnesses of the crime were found as a result of competent investigating operations, who testified against Batsiyev. In addition, tactically right questionings of the witnesses and investigating operations helped to restore the circumstances of the crime in detail.
The court has sentenced Batsiyev to 17 years in prison to be served in a maximum-security penal colony.
At present over 58 people involved in armed attack at Botlikh and Tsumadi districts in Dagestan are on international and Russian federal wanted lists.
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